Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty: Readings from an Old Monk's Journal, a collection of Sister Mary Lou Kownacki's writings published by Orbis Books after her death from cancer in January 2023, is a 2025 Illumination Award bronze medal winner in spirituality. The Illumination Awards recognize and honor the best books in Christian literature each year. "…if we’re wise we find a book like this one …with every hope we ever dreamed, and every word we remember of its insights, and all the joy and possibility it ever brought to all our wishes and all the promises we promised before these times to celebrate the rest of life." —from the Afterword by Joan Chittister, OSB
Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty was edited by Anne McCarthy, Linda Romey, Jacqueline Sanchez-Small, and Katie Gordon. It is available from Benetvision, click here.
